The National Intelligence and Security service freed two days ago three SPLM-N women leaders who had spent more than a month in detention. The women claim to have been tortured in prison and verbally abused.

The released women were named as Asma’a Ahmed, Ne'mat Adam Al-Jama and Ne’ma Abdullah Kafi.

They had been held since a campaign of arrests targeting members of SPLM-N in which more than 200 suspected members of the rebel group were detained including civil society activists and religious leaders.

Women who were recently released confirmed that they were kept in poor conditions in a place they described as a ‘ghost house.’

Speaking to Radio Tamazuj one of the released women Asma’a Ahmed said, “We the people who believe in the New Sudan vision will not mind detention for 40 days or for any number of years. We still believe in that vision and we wish that the same ideology should get extended to every house, family, street.”

“I think it’s our responsibility in the SPLM-N to preach that since we always don’t fear of anything as we are trying to express our view so we will not be threatened by detentions,” she said.

File photo: Kadugli, the capital of South Kordofan State